Guidance for a Novice Please: E-bay Use or Ignore?

[Gary B]

Blimey, that hooky GMGR badge went for £77.00....

[cbuehler]

Originally Posted by Gary B

Blimey, that hooky GMGR badge went for £77.00....

Unfortunately that is the way it goes with the more rare badges. Don't let the unfortunate collector mind set of rarity or "elite" guide your venture. I would strongly recommend focusing on the more common infantry or corps badges to begin with. They are a better bet and the learning curve will be much less painful by that route. They are also far more representative of the British Army and it's history as well. Personally, I can appreciate an old county "fish and chips" badge representing a regiment hundreds of years old that served round the world in the greatest empire ever to be known than any other, bar none.

CB

[Home Guard]

CB, I totally agree with you!

Terry

[lifeochil]

Originally Posted by cbuehler

Personally, I can appreciate an old county "fish and chips" badge representing a regiment hundreds of years old that served round the world in the greatest empire ever to be known than any other, bar none.

CB

And now confined to one little island.

[Gary B]

CB - You are so right!
I get a buzz out of simply holding and feeling a Worcester's badge (my home-county regiment) irrespective of its rarity or value and to be honest, I have a real affinity with the "poor bloody infantry" of both wars - I can even appreciate the patina and shape of my hooky Pals badges - fake I know, but the images that the badge bring to mind mean so much to me.
Whilst I've got an expert on-line, could I pick your brains please? I bought a Lincolnshire Yeomanry badge, but it's white metal rather than the bronze which my reference book suggests it should be...(a lovely badge all the same, such great definition) - is this a wrong 'un too??? Thanks again CB !!

[Gary B]

Me too Terry - CB is so right!
G